The Press

Hyphenated names

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I enjoy reading Joe Bennett’s column very much.

He, having been brought up in England, did apparently not strike double-barrelled surnames.

In Wales it is a different story, Dafydd Lloyd-George, World War I prime minister, being perhaps the most famous, and politician and Secretary for Wales Sir David Maxwell-Fyffe being another.

In North Wales I had childhood friends called variously: Anne Watkin-Jones,

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